Alice Walker: “The Civil Rights Movement: What Good Was It?”
Original Passage:
“I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing. It has been like being born again, literally. Just “knowing” has meant everything to me. Knowing has pushed me out into the world, into college, into places, into people”
My Passage:
I have written and read and studied and reviewed and pushed myself to the point of exhaustion. It has been a trying time, truly. Just “hoping” has been enough for me to succeed. Hoping has gotten me through tests, through projects, through papers, through college.
Alice Walker: "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens"
Original Passage:
"Therefore we must fearlessly pull out of ourselves and look at and identify with our lives the living creativity some of our great-grandmothers were not allowed to know. I stress some of them because it is well known that the majority of our great-grandmothers knew, even without "knowing" it, the reality of their spirituality, even if they didn't recognize it beyond what happened in the singing at church-and they never had any intention of giving it up."
My Passage:
Nevertheless she will courageously go down to the crime scene and investigate and delve into the mystery that most other people would not dare to touch. I say most because it is the case that some people like her live, even with the danger, to fight for justice, even if they do not find anything beyond a single piece of hair- and they do not have any plans of stopping the search.